Catch 33 1/3 - Feel Your Way Through Music

Chronicles: The Run

If you, like me, tend to spend more time in your imagination than in your physical body, let's try a movement meditation: going for a run in Victoria Park in London. Also, my song "Two of Diamonds" live. Listen now to a new episode of Chronicles - a brief escape into captivating soundscapes, travel tales, and personal musings.

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Chronicles: The Sound of Spring

Join me for a stroll through a botanical garden on the hunt for the sounds of spring. Listen now to a new episode of Chronicles - a brief escape into captivating soundscapes, travel tales, and personal musings. And then listen to my chillhop lo-fi remix of "Your Love" or buy a copy of my children's book The Magic Suitcase (loved by children and adults the world over!).

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Chronicles: The Market

Let's go to the market and buy some strawberries. And I have some big news to tell you. Listen now to a new episode of Chronicles - a brief escape into captivating soundscapes, travel tales, and personal musings. And then listen to my online concert on YouTube, where I premiered a brand new song called "Old Fashioned".

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Chronicles: The Climb

Climb to the top of Montaña Blanca with me. But don't exhaust yourself going up, we have to go back down at some point. Listen now to a new episode of Chronicles - a brief escape into captivating soundscapes, travel tales, and personal musings.

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Chronicles: The Museum

Come to the museum with me. And a special announcement. Listen now to a new episode of Chronicles - a brief escape into captivating soundscapes, travel tales, and personal musings.

In this episode, I mentioned this Spotify Playlist of Heartstring Duets (you can check out the songs even if you don't have a Spotify account). Use this link to subscribe to my newsletter to get your personal invitation for my online live show. Do you like what you hear? Show your love on

Chronicles: The Ocean

Embark on an auditory journey with my new podcast format Chronicles: a brief escape into captivating soundscapes, travel tales, and personal musings. The debut episode revolves around the sound of the ocean and comes to you from the beautiful Canary Island Lanzarote.

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Episode #2: Patience

In this episode we'll explore patience as a feeling and connections between patience and music. Does music help us become patient? And when does music require our patience? We talk about mindfulness, why music on hold sounds so awful, and how patience isn't always a virtue.

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Special thanks to Sammy, Paul, Laine, Val, Agnès, and Karthic for helping me to make this episode happen!
Take That: Patience
Listen to the musicians tuning their instruments on this live recording of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Archduke Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97 from 1959. And this is what the record looks like.
A beautiful rendition of John Dowland's My Lord Willoughby’s Welcome Home. And here's the piece performed on two lutes, which just melts my heart.
This podcast is written, produced and hosted by me, Annie Mondegreen. The original music composed and performed for this podcast is also by me, Annie Mondegreen.
This episode featured the following songs and sounds that are in the public domain:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major performed by the Advent Chamber Orchestra, released under the EFF Open Audio License, and available from the Al Goldstein collection in the Pandora Music repository at ibiblio.org.
Frank Quinn’s Home I Left Behind courtesy of the Irish Traditional Music Archive and released under the Creative Commons License CC BY 4.0
John Dowland's My Lord Willoughby’s Welcome Home performed by Annie Mondegreen, all rights reserved.
Symphony Tune Up recorded by city11 and released under the Creative Commons 0 License on freesound.org

This episode featured original songs by me, Annie Mondegreen. The songs are called: Rain Is The Color Of Love, and The Same Old Matter. All rights reserved. Check out my music on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, YouTube, Bandcamp or wherever you listen to music.
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Episode #1: Nostalgia (Part I)

In this episode we'll explore the origins of the word “nostalgia” and its connection to a strange “wasting disease” of Swiss mercenary soldiers in the 17th century. I will also talk about the positive effects of nostalgia and the feeling of impossibility that nostalgia induces. Music, of course, plays a central role in each case. This is part one of a double feature episode.

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Special thanks to my first caller and to Sammy for sharing some personal insights on nostalgia, and to Sravanthi for reading the credits!
CBC News provide an example of Krystine Batcho's Nostalgia Inventory and I quoted from her 2007 article "Nostalgia and the Emotional Tone and Content of Song Lyrics" published in the American Journal of Psychology.
Read Jean-Jacques Rousseau's observation on the effect of Ranz des Vaches on Swiss soldiers in his Dictionary of Music (1779) at the Internet Archive (page 267).
Read Immanuel Kant's short comment on the soldier's ailment in his Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798) in this Google Books Preview (page 69).
This podcast is written, produced and hosted by me, Annie Mondegreen. The original music composed and performed for this podcast is also by me, Annie Mondegreen.
This episode featured the following songs that are in the public domain:

Mi Nostalgia by Paul Gad and Aleco Ahiadis by courtesy of the National Library of France / Bibliothèque nationale de France, gallica.bnf.fr.
Ranz des Vaches from the Overture to William Tell by Gioachino Rossini, performed and recorded by Kevin MacLeod from incompetech.com and released under the Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0.

This episode featured original songs by me, Annie Mondegreen. The songs are called: Living in Nostalgia, and Two of Diamonds. All rights reserved. Check out my music on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, YouTube, Bandcamp or wherever you listen to music.
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Episode #1: Nostalgia (Part II)

In this episode we'll continue our exploration of musical nostalgia. I will take you back to the years of your youth and to the swinging 1930s in Latvia. I will also try to answer the question if there is music that is inherently nostalgic. This is the second part of a double feature episode.

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Special thanks to Indrikis Veitners for sharing his extensive knowledge on Latvian jazz, to Jim for calling in with a wonderful question, and to Jan for reading the credits!
Explore the soundtrack of your youth through thenostalgiamachine.com. The earliest year you could pick is 1951.
I cited this 2008 study from the University of Leeds: "Self-centered memories: The reminiscence bump and the self" by Clare J. Rathbone, Chris J. A. Moulin and Martin A. Conway published in the journal Memory & Cognition.
I also cited this 2020 study called "A Cross-Sectional Study of Reminiscence Bumps for Music-Related Memories in Adulthood" by Kelly Jakubowski, Tuomas Eerola, Barbara Tillmann, Fabien Perrin and Lizette Heine published in the journal Music & Science.
I recommend Indrikis Veitner's article on Latvian jazz in the collected volume The History of European Jazz: The Music, Musicians and Audience in Context edited by Francesco Martinelli.
In case you hadn't heard of the song Tezeta by Ethiopian musician Mulatu Astatke, do check it out!
This podcast is written, produced and hosted by me, Annie Mondegreen. The original music composed and performed for this podcast is also by me, Annie Mondegreen.
This episode featured the following songs that are in the public domain:

Bukareste recorded for Bellaccord Electro in Latvia, by courtesy of the National Library of Latvia.
Ranz des Vaches from the Overture to William Tell by Gioachino Rossini, performed and recorded by Kevin MacLeod from incompetech.com and released under the Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0.
Erik Satie’s Gymnopédie No. 1, also recorded by Kevin MacLeod from incompetech.com and released under the Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0.

This episode featured original songs by me, Annie Mondegreen. The songs are called: Let Me Rewind and Vibrant Colors & Gasoline. All rights reserved. Check out my music on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, YouTube, Bandcamp or wherever you listen to music.
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About This Podcast

If seeing is believing, listening is feeling. "Catch 33 ⅓ - Feel Your Way Through Music" explores the fascinating connections between music and emotions one song at a time.
Imagine a call-in radio show about music that's both entertaining and educating, that expands your appreciation of music's emotional side and the musical side of emotions. Each episode is filled with trivia and anecdotes, hidden musical gems, and original compositions.
But most importantly, this podcast features you! You may leave me a voicemail on Speakpipe to talk about the episode's theme or anything else that's on your mind. You can record up to 90 seconds directly from your computer or phone, and it's free (when you hit send, you agree to your audio being featured on the show).

Recently, I added shorter soundscape diaries to the feed called "Chronicles", which are brief escapes into captivating soundscapes, travel tales, and personal musings.

Listen to "Catch 33 ⅓" right here or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Meet The Host: Annie Mondegreen

Hi, I'm Annie Mondegreen. Music is my greatest passion and has been ever since I started playing and studying classical guitar music when I was ten years old. Today, I write, perform, and release my own songs as an independent singer-songwriter. I enjoy writing sad love songs, and Joan Baez, Françoise Hardy, and Sandy Denny are my north stars. I love recording my music: I self-release studio recordings to all major streaming platforms, and I capture unique live performances filmed around the globe as musical postcards.

I'm also the author of a children's book called The Magic Suitcase: A Feelings Fable for Children and Adults. I wrote the story and my mom illustrated it by hand with original colored pencil drawings.

In addition to hosting this podcast, I'm reading Around the World in 18 Sleuths on my blog. I combine reading crime fiction with other forms of armchair traveling, for instance, with listening through the respective countries' music histories.

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